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Show MARK TWAIN'S OLD INSTRUCTOR TALKS OF THE HUMORIST Declares That Hark Netted Net-ted $1000 on HU First Lecture. EAST UVEEPOOL, 0.. July 19. Capt. Abntr Martin, ths eldest Ohio-Mississippi Ohio-Mississippi riesr aaa ia this section ef tka Ohio calibrated his ninety Int birthday anniversary yeeterday. It was Captain Martin who taaaht Sanaa Clemens (Mark Twain) all that the Utter ever knew abent a steamboat, steam-boat, and when both were working ea the eld river packet, Pennsylvania, "told San ke sever would make a hit a rfMeai. " AaM rentals Vartia laeoaieailyi "And ke didn't: he was too witty, even when oa a pilot keuee "Baa broke late the lector buiaese ta Sacramento, Cel., soon after the war, aad whea be was dead broke. He made a deal witk aa opera house nana- far, was talked airaiast Bam jolnf ea he stage. Bam cot out kis ewa dodg-era, dodg-era, aad oa them ke kad printed, ' Doors opes at 7: JO o'clock trouble starts at 1.' He spent all Bight writing bin first lecture, tie waa still at it at sunup" Tke keuee waa packed, aad Ham cleared ever S1000 that night sod ke got the opera house for nothing." Captain Martin declares that "few people aver knew hew Sam got into the lecture business. Whea the war broke ent, ke enlisted ia tke confederate army, spent a few months there, and, deserting, desert-ing, went to the Fiji islands, where he remained antil after the war. Returning Return-ing horn dead broke, Sam then wrote aaa delivered his first lecture." |